Merge pull request #1595 from mperham/feature/stats

Increase expiration time for stats from 180 days to 5 years.

Changes.md

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ end
   processes 'workers'.  Instead, use "Thread", "Process" or "Job".
 - The Workers tab is now renamed to Busy and contains a list of live
   Sidekiq processes and jobs in progress.
+- Processed/failed stats will now expire in 5 years instead of 180 days [#1593]
 
 2.17.7
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lib/sidekiq/processor.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ module Sidekiq
   # processes it.  It instantiates the worker, runs the middleware
   # chain and then calls Sidekiq::Worker#perform.
   class Processor
-    STATS_TIMEOUT = 180 * 24 * 60 * 60
+    # To prevent a memory leak, ensure that stats expire. However, they should take up a minimal amount of storage
+    # so keep them around for a long time
+    STATS_TIMEOUT = 24 * 60 * 60 * 365 * 5
 
     include Util
     include Actor